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Garbage

Garbage service shortened during extreme heat in Raleigh

  • Jun 25, 2025
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Reducing food waste is good for your budget and the planet

  • Oct 29, 2024
Great Ocean Cleanup

Ships sent to clean Great Pacific Garbage Patch return to California

  • Sep 10, 2024

NC trash collector helps children during Debby

  • Aug 9, 2024

Here's how Cumberland County is fighting back against illegal dumping

  • Apr 2, 2024

Durham sanitation workers agree to return to work, for now

  • Sep 11, 2023

Day 3 of Durham sanitation workers' protest, city turns to contractors

  • Sep 8, 2023

Durham sanitation workers ask for pay raise at city council session

  • Sep 8, 2023

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Durham sanitation workers agree to return to work

  • Sep 11, 2023
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Day 3 of Durham sanitation workers protest, city turns to contractors

  • Sep 8, 2023
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Durham sanitation workers attend city council work session to make their pay demands in person

  • Sep 7, 2023
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Community litter crew picks up PPE trash scattered across their neighborhood

  • Jul 1, 2020
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Molok supporters plan rally in downtown Raleigh

  • Aug 19, 2019
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Landfills want to spray 'garbage juice' in the air?

  • Jul 15, 2017

Latest Stories

More than 8,500 pounds of trash left on Lake Tahoe shores following 4th of July

"There was no accident about it. People partied, trashed and left it like that," said Colin West with Clean Up the Lake.

  • Jul 7, 2023

Sherpa in disbelief over garbage left behind at camp on Mount Everest

More people are climbing Mount Everest than ever before and many of them are making a mess of it - literally.

  • Jun 1, 2023

Food waste filling up US landfills, creating most harmful greenhouse gas, EPA data shows

The most common material sent to landfills is food. Here's what you can do to help reduce food waste at home.

  • Apr 12, 2023

Cumberland County seeks to expand landfill, drawing concern from activists

Cumberland County is engaging the public in its proposed plans to expand its landfill on Ann Street in Fayetteville.

  • Mar 3, 2023

Uneaten holiday leftovers equals money in the trash, wasted opportunity to help fight climate change

Avoid throwing away uneaten holiday leftovers and help save the planet while adding some extra cash in your pocket.

  • Dec 20, 2022